The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1887-10-06


are donkeys. Laughter.) When they know
it they are not donkeys. Laughter.) The
Republicans don't know it. Oaughter.) But
L must draw the line on some of his qualities.
draw it on the bray. When Jack salutes
his Jenny, though miles apart, then the
jubilee of noisy affection begins. 1t is an
internal concert, amorous, jocund and ear-be-
numbing 1t starts with an exaggerated case
of asthma. Uaughter.) This rasps your
soul. The beast loses, then catches its breath
with harsh, squeakish sibilation. until
roar as of forty hungry lions comes to if
relief. Laughter.) All the powers Of wheezy,
whistling, gasping suction are exhausted.
Then follow terrific expirations of the below
ing monster Uaughter.) Suction and
emission-repeated with damnable iteration
until the noise dies cut in an agony un-
utterable. l used to h-ar when boy the
creaking of the untarred wheels of the Con-
estoga wagon from Pennsylvania. 1 have
lately heard the screaming shadoof, turned
by blind buffaloes, pumping the Nile upon
the fruitful land of Egypt; but never before
or since have heard such diabolicaI con-
cert as this braying of the dcnkeys of Prinki-
pOs-until Foraker got the asthma about the
flags and Fairchild got the palsy, and John
Sherman both. (Roars of Laughter.) Wis
consin took up the asinine strain Ohio gives
its sonorous bray, and New York, with her
new Senator and her Greeley Tribune, added
their furious illumination. 1 beg pardon Of
Horace Greeley for Horace Greeley was full
OF charity for all, like Abraham Lincoln. I
felt as one in bonds" with those in prison.
(Cheers and Laughter.) All Bedlam was let
loose in howl of lorror-and all for whatf
If not to provoke assassination, at least to
regain political power; not by the still small
voice of reason, but by the elemental fury
which is as senseless as it is tempestu.:us. Do
these howlers think the people do not know
what the incident meant? A tender-it may
be inopportune and not leeal-but a tender
OF kindly regard, after a generation of the
warp and woof, the mere threads, the colored
emblems of a lost cause, which all good men
would desire to be forgotten.
ILLUSTRATIONS OF AMNESTY -. CIVIL WAR.
When Charles Sumner offered to erase the
names of the battles upon our flags, Massa-
chuseits proposed to draw black lines around
his honored name He was a student. He
had read the words Of the Roman, that it was
wise to build bridge of gold for a retreating
soldier in civil war. He read the words OF
the Roman Senator, that all trophies of such
civil contests moulder and pass away. He
had read the amnesty at the games of con.
quered Athens, and in his mind he heard
again the bugle of the Roman herald pro-
claiming amnesty and grace from Rome to
conquered Greecel He had read and Don.
dered something better. Perhaps he had
heard the Psalm of the Hebrew King-as he
chanted of the deliverance of his people from
bondage-'Then was our mouth filed with
laughter and our tongue with singing. The
Lord hath done great things for us, whereof
we are glad. Turn again our captivity, o
Lord, as the streams in the South (Cheers).
These studies of civil wal and of amnesty
have not been the recreation of Joy of the
Republican leaders. They read the gospel of
Anarchy and rejoice in the covenant of death
ard hell. This Governor of Ohio, who 90
inaptly fills the place once occupied by Nor
row, Macarthur, Lucas, Corwin and Allen,
telegraphed to some attorneys in Washington
to get out an injunction against the delivery
of the flags. Had he lived eighteen hundred
and seventy-eight years ago, when the angelic
choir chanted Peace on earth, goodwill to
men, he would have sought for the Roman
judex at Bethlehem to enjoin the angelic
choir, unless they had sung, Hate on earth
and ill-will to men, daughter and applause).
Nay, further, had he lived in the vicinity of
the mountain where Christ taught US how to
forgive our enemies and pray for those who
despite!uily use us, he would have invoked,
with frenzied blasphemy, Cesar himself to
close the lips of the Divine Teacher. And he
would have been ably seconded by the gentle
Fairchild, who, with aimless fury, would
have cried out: .Palsied be the tor que that
utte's such benign lessons of forgiveness.
The teachings of those days remain. They
are in the minds of Him who spake, not as
Hebrew, not as Pagan, who spake as never
man spake, when from the nameless mount
He taught that forgiveness only was great
and good; that retaliation was sad and bsd;
that 10 love and pray for your enemies was
wise and noble. He taught for all time that
for man or a State, for life or for death, the
benignity Of amnesty in the heart and on the
statute was more jubilant than queenly
jubilees, and more permanent than empires
founded on force of arms, or on the petrifac-
ton of the human heart (Applausel.
To the noisy and thoughtless iconoclasts Of
representative vernment and federal fellow
ship, to the sectional and malicious anathe-
mizer of this year of grace, who would have
Us forget their delinquencies and malpractice.